A new office to harness the benefits and mitigate the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence (AI) is set to be established by the Manx government.
Plans for an office for AI development and regulation, which would also help to digitise public services as part of a push to deliver £50m of savings over five years, were announced at the annual Government Conference.
Chief Minister Alfred Cannan said capabilities of AI would "significantly challenge the status quo" and those who were "unprepared" would "struggle to remain competitive".
The office would be designed to "seize the economic opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI) and respond to the challenges it presents", he said.
In his opening address at the 2025 conference at the Comis Hotel, in Santon, Cannan said: "Other nations are starting to move forward and we need to catch up."
